Myung-hwa

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Myung-hwa
Hangul 명화
Hanja 明 花 and others
Revised Romanization Myeong-hwa
McCune–Reischauer Myŏnghwa

Myung-hwa, also spelled Myong-hwa in North Korea, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

North Korea Sovereign state in East Asia

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, parts of the Russian Far East and Inner Mongolia, under Gwanggaeto the Great. To the north and northwest, the country is bordered by China and by Russia along the Amnok and Tumen rivers; it is bordered to the south by South Korea, with the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two. Nevertheless, North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands.

Hanja Korean language characters of Chinese origin

Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Hanja-mal or Hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with Hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because Hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters, though the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters 教 and 研 are written as 敎 and 硏. Only a small number of Hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.

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Hanja

There are 19 hanja with the reading "myung" and 15 hanja with the reading "hwa" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. [1] Hanja with which this name may be written include:

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Asuka (あすか) is both a Japanese surname and a feminine or masculine Japanese given name. It is also the name of an era in Japanese history, the Asuka Jidai (飛鳥時代), which was in turn named after the Indian Buddhist emperor Ashoka.

People

People with this name include:

Myung-wha Chung is a Korean cellist.

Kim Myong-hwa is a North Korean sport shooter. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's skeet event, in which she tied for 9th place.

Lee Myung-hwa is a former South Korean football player who was a member of South Korea women's national football team.

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References

  1. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  2. ↑ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
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